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Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-07-2006
BAGHDAD, Nov. 7, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The Facilities Protection
Service (FPS) created after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has become
the principal source of death squads in Iraq, senior government
leaders say.
"The first accomplishment of Paul Bremer [former U.S.
administrator in Iraq] in Iraq was dissolving the Iraqi army and
all security establishments," a consultant with an Iraqi ministry
told IPS on condition of anonymity. "The man was granted the
highest decoration by his President for a job well done."
The U.S. occupation authorities and the Iraqi leaders working
with them set up new army and police forces under ...
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COLONEL ROD BARHAM (USA) HOLDS A DEFENSE DEPARTMENT NEWS BRIEFING ON...
Political Transcript Wire;
April 28, 2006 ;
787 words
......TELECONFERENCE FROM IRAQ ON TRAINING OF THE IRAQI POLICE APRIL 28, 2006...of police in Iraq. Our goal in...and resourced Iraqi police officers working...out what the Iraqi police assets are in...that make up Iraq; and, B, train...
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Roundup: US-recruited Iraqi police more frequently targeted in Iraq
Xinhua News Agency;
January 31, 2004 ;
615 words
...Roundup: US-recruited Iraqi police more frequently targeted in Iraq by Li Jizhi BAGHDAD...Xinhua) -- The Iraqi police force, trained...the US- backed Iraqi police force. More than...battles over in Iraq. Among the five...US overseer of Iraq Paul Bremer ...
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More Filipinos pull out of Iraq,: Insurgents press attacks on GIs, Iraqi...
Charleston Gazette;
July 17, 2004 ;
Danica Kirka;
440 words
...BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Philippines withdrew 11 more soldiers from Iraq on Friday to meet the...out peacekeepers from Iraq outraged U.S. allies...the U.S. command and Iraqi police said. Also, attackers...rocket-propelled grenades at an Iraqi police patrol, killing one...officials to ...
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Two soldiers, two Marines killed in Iraq: Roadside bomb kills Iraqi police...
Charleston Daily Mail;
August 3, 2004 ;
230 words
...THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb killed a local police...in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq's battered police forces. In other...by a roadside bomb late Monday in Iraq's capital, while two American Marines...beginning of military operations in Iraq. Associated Press Television ...
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IRAQ - Low Quality Of Iraqi Police Recruits.(Brief Article)
APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy;
August 1, 2005 ;
183 words
...The vetting of recruits to Iraq's police force is so poor that many...says that, while training for the new Iraqi police force has improved, there are still...recent assessment by the US military in Iraq that only half of the country's police...fighting insurgents. News that the Iraqi ...
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Iraqi police cadets take up dangerous job to bring security to Iraq
AP Worldstream;
August 25, 2004 ;
JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer;
641 words
......MUWAQQAR, Jordan Iraqi police cadet Meqdad...jobs in the new Iraq because he wants...diplomatic missions in Iraq. Al-Izzawi also...dictator last year. Iraqi police have become a...Authority in Iraq to train 32,000 Iraqi police officers over...
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British officials raise reports of aubse by Iraqi police with Iraq's...
AP Worldstream;
July 3, 2005 ;
JANE WARDELL, Associated Press Writer;
280 words
......it has raised reports of abuses by Iraqi police officers with Iraq's government. The Ministry of Defense...abuse of suspected terrorists held in Iraqi police cells. Neither government department...investigation must be carried out by Iraq as a sovereign state, said that the...that ...
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Iraq's hottest front line: the police; The US shifts $1.8 billion from...
The Christian Science Monitor;
September 17, 2004 ;
787 words
......be the deadliest in Iraq, perhaps in the world...the war's end, 700 Iraqi police officers have died...those willing to take Iraq's most dangerous jobs...support for the interim Iraqi government cooperating...forces. Still, what Iraq is only now coming...
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US sees no change in its Iraq role Officer says Kurdish attacks on Iraqi...
The Boston Globe;
May 27, 1991 ;
Associated Press;
429 words
...DOHUK, Iraq -- Coalition forces in northern Iraq will not be drawn deeper into providing security in the region, despite recurring attacks by Kurds on Iraqi police, a US spokesman said yesterday. "We don't think the incidents...near the Turkish border. US Army military police protected Iraqi ...
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Veterans, Expert Testify About the Bush Administration's Conduct in War in...
U.S. Newswire;
October 12, 2006 ;
787 words
......veterans of the war in Iraq and a former National...conduct of the war in Iraq. Phillip Carter, a former...senior advisor to the Iraqi Police discussed the administration...the Diyala province of Iraq. I served in Iraq from...tangible progress by the Iraqi police ...
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U.S. troops, Iraqi police detain 43 in northern Iraq
AP Worldstream;
November 28, 2004 ;
160 words
...AP Worldstream 11-28-2004 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. troops and Iraqi paramilitary police arrested 43 suspected insurgents in...part of an ongoing operation to re-establish control of Iraq's third-largest city, a military statement said Sunday...which is responsible for security in Mosul and northern ...
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Iraq's Militias Complicate Security Picture for Iraqi Police, U.S....
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
September 7, 2003 ;
787 words
......Business News Sep. 7--NAJAF, Iraq--Clad in black shirts, black...brandished rifles and machine guns. Iraqi police officers patiently took orders...support than either the new Iraqi police or US military, even...for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, to makeshift unions of private...
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ-- An Iraqi police man displays a photograph that was found...
KRT Photos;
January 26, 2004 ;
TOM PENNINGTON;
216 words
......DALLAS OUT) (January 26) BAGHDAD, IRAQ-- An Iraqi police man displays a photograph that was...Monday, January 26, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. The van was hit with the IED after passing through an Iraqi Police check point a few hundred meters away...
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